It is the purpose and intent of the Chula Vista City Council, through the adoption of this chapter, to establish an abandoned residential property registration program as a mechanism to protect residential neighborhoods from becoming blighted through the lack of adequate maintenance and security of abandoned properties.

Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to allow or encourage circumvention of the foreclosure statutes of the state of California. (Ord. 3150 § 1, 2010; Ord. 3080 § 1, 2007).